"I really came to literature through poetry."
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"When you consider how many millions of workdays begin with hangovers great and small, it is mildly surprising to find how few real descriptions of the experience our literature can boast."
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"That's the old AA maxim, "Always have a drink in your hand and you'll never want a drink." That's one of the most classic deceptions in the literature: "I'll take a drink tomorrow." I actually don't think that's necessarily a very helpful maxim in AA, but it's a very good maxim in showing how strategic self-deception can be employed, even self-consciously. That's the amazing thing, to me, about self-deception."
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"One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him."
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"I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for Literature, I'd find it an extremely difficult conflict because I'd be basically disinclined to accept."
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"Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity"
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"It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him."
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"During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped."
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"We had more viewers on the broadcast network than we did on the cable channel."
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"It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force."
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"We've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them."
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"This is a tough environment, and it's tough for everybody."
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"You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson."
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"I suspect people channel-surf, as they tend to everywhere. But I'm told that we're not much on at the State Department, so we'll have to look into that."
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"Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve."
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"As writers, the world is not about individual expression entirely because we are producing works of literature and getting them out into the world."
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"Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented."
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"It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars."
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"God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved."
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"We're making far too big a deal out of our sexual preferences. It's just another form of narcissism, and I think it can be a big problem and a tremendous obstacle."
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